The Guatemalan Congress voted to approve legislation that will improve the lives of animals throughout the country. It is the first time the legislative body presented this kind of bill, submitted by HSI and its local partners in 2016.

During a recent parliamentary committee meeting, some Conservative and Liberal Members of Parliament openly discussed trading political support for the commercial slaughter of seals in Atlantic Canada for support for the British Columbia grizzly bear trophy hunt.

HSI/Latin America is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the individual(s) responsible for the attack and subsequent death of Gustavito, the hippopotamus of the El Salvador National Zoo.

Top Model Fernanda Tavares has joined HSI and the National Forum for Animal Protection and Defense in an effort to spare the lives of thousands of animals from needless suffering in cruel and obsolete agrochemical tests in Brazil.

Belgium has notified the European Commission that authorities found oxyphenylbutazone, which is a banned substance in food-producing animals in the EU, in chilled horsemeat from Canada. The substance is widely administered to horses, particularly in the United States.

In light of a string of barn fires in recent years, HSI/Canada is again calling on provincial and federal governments to take urgent action to require safety measures to address a widespread problem in Canada.

A raid of a suspected dogfighting ring in Purral, Costa Rica, resulted in the rescue of 15 severely neglected dogs, several of whom showed clear signs of fighting. The Costa Rican National Animal Health Service conducted the seizure, with the help of HSI/Latin America and American Stafford Costa Rica.

HSI has filed comments with South Korea’s Ministry of Environment denouncing the government’s failure to follow through on its commitment to expand its support of alternative approaches to animal testing in recent legislative proposals to revise the Act on the Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals (K-REACH) and establish the new Life Chemical Products and Biocide Safety Management Act.

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